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Motif

Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.)

Deceptions. · Thefts and cheats. · Other cheats. · Other cheats. · view the constellation · filed as K476.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Fox 13.
Within the index

Filed under Cheating by substitution of worthless articles.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Rock substituted for ham by trickster Tortoise cheats leopard by substituting bundle of resin for bundle of meat
Filed beside it
False articles used to produce credit Water sold as wine. Wine-casks partitioned: one half wine, other half water False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one Lean geese substituted for fat by trickster Woman gives friend dried comb while she herself eats the honey Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one

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